Indiana Regional Medical Center has surpassed some milestones concerning their robotic surgery department.
(Photo provided by IRMC)
IRMC announced that they have surpassed 200 Mako robot arm-assisted joint replacement operations. The hospital has three surgeons trained on the Mako robot. The robot is primarily used for partial and full knee replacements along with hip replacement operations. The Mako robot has been at IRMC since the spring of 2020.
Meanwhile, the da Vinci robots have surpassed 2200 surgeries. The da Vinci robot assists with minimal invasive surgeries for general, bariatric and gynecologic operations. The hospital received its first da Vinci robot in 2017 and recently acquired a second robot. Eight surgeons at IRMC are trained to use the da Vinci robot.
